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Rainbow After The Storm
A rainbow appears as a distant tropical rain shower moves away from El Yunque National Forest.
Sparse Trees and Yokahu Tower
A distant view of Yokahu Tower from the parking lot below La Coca Falls in El Yunque National Forest. This tower would normally be hidden by the dense foliage of the rainforest, but remains visible due to the defoliation caused by “Hurricane María.
Yokahu Tower Through the Trees
Four months after Hurricane María passed through the island of Puerto Rico ,the environmental destruction remained clearly visible on the landscape. The trees were not as lush and green, the foliage was sparse, and landmarks that were normally hidden…
Damaged Structure
Damaged outbuilding at a family home in Loíza Aldea, Puerto Rico, missing it’s roof and walls.
Flag Roots
In the Old San Juan, someone had painted a Puerto Rican flag onto the roots of an uprooted tree along the waterfront.
FEMA Center in Adjuntas
FEMA center in Adjunas, Puerto Rico, almost four months after the storm. The only signs on the building advertised low-income loans.
Foliage Returning in the Mountains
Driving through the mountains of the interior of the island showed how nature has begun to regenerate after the damage of Hurricane María, but also that there was a long way to go for full recovery, as evident in the tens of thousands of landslides…
Damaged Structures - Utuado
Blue tarp roofs dotted the landscape throughout the island, both on the coast and in the mountains. Debris was also seen throughout the mountains, such as the sheet metal seen to the left of the house structure in this photo.
Debris - Utuado
Sheet metal debris by the roadside in Utuado.
Native Monarch
A species of monarch endemic to the island of Puerto Rico. This type of monarch does not migrate off the island. This butterfly was in the mariposa, or butterfly house, at Casa Pueblo in Adjuntas. Breeding and providing habitat for butterflies and…
Butterfly
Butterflies are important pollinators, and Casa Pueblo continued its work of breeding, releasing and protecting butterflies in their mariposario, or butterfly house, immediately after Hurricane María.
Mariposario
Inside the butterfly house, or mariposario, at Casa Pueblo in Adjuntas. Butterflies, which are important pollinators, are bred and released here, giving a boost to the island’s population of insects that was affected by Hurricane María.
Breeding Native Monarchs
As part of ecological restoration, protection and education programs, Casa Pueblo maintains a mariposario and breed native monarch butterflies, and important pollinator on the island. Insect populations were decimated by Hurricane María and the lack…
Caterpillars and Chrysalises
Caterpillars and chrysalises undergoing transformation into a species of monarch butterfly that is native to the island of Puerto Rico, Danaus plexippus portorricensis. This subspecies does not migrate off of the island. Like its cousins in other…
Butterfly House
Butterfly house at Casa Pueblo in Adjuntas, Puerto Rico, where a native subspecies of monarch is bred, protected, and released into the natural environment. A few monarchs remain in the butterfly house at any given time in order to educate visitors,…
Cosmos for the Pollinators
On the stretch of property between the Casa Pueblo main building and mariposario, or butterfly house, there are stands of flowers to provide food to the released butterflies and other pollinators. These stands of cosmos are self-gaining and self-…
Aquaponics Equipment
Aquaponics equipment ready to be planted by classes visiting Casa Pueblo in Adjuntas, Puerto Rico. This will serve as a demonstration of small scale, sustainable food production for visitors to Casa Pueblo.
Mural at Casa Pueblo
Mural on one of the buildings in the yard of Casa Pueblo. The organization is dedicated to ecology and education, as well as committed to culture and the arts.
Medical Refrigerator
Casa Pueblo, in Adjuntas, Puerto Rico, never lost power during or after Hurricane María due to having self-sufficient resilient and renewable systems. Using solar energy, Casa Pueblo quickly became a center for relief and recovery efforts in the town…
Radio Casa Pueblo
Next to the mariposario, behind the main building of Casa Pueblo, is where Radio Casa Pueblo is broadcast from. The radio station was able to continue transmitting to the local area during and after Hurricane María due to Casa Pueblo never losing…
Radio Casa Pueblo Sign
Sign for Radio Casa Pueblo, the first fully solar powered radio station on the island of Puerto Rico. Both the studio and the transmitter are now run on solar energy.
Coffee Grinder
Coffee grinder in Casa Pueblo. The organization begun to plant and grow five acres of sustainably farmed coffee after Hurricane María, which will help Casa Pueblo sustain itself economically through the sale of local coffee.
Self-Sufficient Energy Production at Casa Pueblo
Casa Pueblo creates its own energy through the use of solar power technology. These cabinets house all of the batteries and inverter equipment needed to power Casa Pueblo. The organization did not lose power during or after Hurricane María thanks to…
Casa Pueblo Programs and Projects
One of many displays on the walls inside Casa Pueblo, highlighting the organization’s many projects and programs in ecology, education, culture and the arts.
Solar Cinema
This former school building which is immediately next door to Casa Pueblo’s main building has been converted into a solar powered cinema for the community of Adjuntas. It is also used as classroom and meeting space and for presentations and…